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Hospital Price Transparency Needs Harsher Penalties, Uniform Data ReportingAccording to an expert panel, CMS should increase the maximum penalty for noncompliance with the pricing rule from $300 per...
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Jaw Surgery Takes a $27K Bite out of One Man's BudgetAbout three months after the surgery, Ely Bair was shocked to get the large hospital bill ? about $24,000 higher...
Payer
Hospital 'Trauma Centers' Charge Enormous Fees to Treat Minor Injuries and Send People HomeTens of thousands of times a year, hospitals charge enormously expensive trauma alert fees for injuries so minor the patient...
Marketing
Doctors Weigh Pros and Cons of Prescribing Hot-Button Alzheimer's DrugFaced with criticism over insufficient guidance, the FDA has revised the drug's label to narrow its potential use.
Marketing
Drugmakers' Spending on Stock, Dividends and Executive Pay Exceeds Research, Democrats SayContrary to pharmaceutical industry arguments that large profits fund extensive research, the major drug companies plow more of their billions...
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Effort to Decipher Hospital Prices Yields Key Finding: Don't Try It at HomeA series of columns by Bernard J. Wolfson addresses the challenges consumers face in California's healthcare landscape.
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Delta Variant Surges in Colorado as the Bands Play OnThe CDC says Colorado is among the states with the highest proportion of the highly contagious delta variant.
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Hospital Prices Must Now Be Transparent. For Many Consumers, They're Still Anyone's Guess.Some hospitals bury the data deep on their websites or have not included all the categories of prices required.
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Only 9% of Adults are Aware of Hospital Price Transparency RulesThe few people who have researched hospital prices online within the past six months were slightly more likely to erroneously...
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A Hospital Charged $722.50 to Push Medicine Through an IV. Twice.As hospitals disaggregate charges for services, there has been a proliferation of newfangled fees to increase billing. In the field,...
Revenue Cycle
Study Finds 'Selective Compliance' with Price Transparency RuleThe research confirms what has been anecdotally reported for months: That hospitals are choosing which parts of the rule to...
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Colorado Lawmakers Wage Multifront Assault on High Drug CostsState officials estimate the combined impact of the various measures could save Coloradans between 20% and 40% in out-of-pocket costs.